PETA recently went undercover at Triple F Farms, Inc. (Triple
F), a Bradford County, Pa.-based massive ferret-breeding mill
whose animals are sold to laboratories around the world and pet
stores across the U.S., including Petland. PETA's investigation
revealed that thousands of ferrets are being kept confined in
crowded, filthy, stifling barns, where they suffer from chronic
neglect and die on a daily basis. We need your help now to end
this suffering once and for all.

See the undercover video:
http://www.peta.org/features/investigation-exposes-cruelty-at-ferret-mill.aspx

PETA found that ferrets were kept grouped in small cages with
dangerous wire floors, deprived of any opportunity to engage in
natural behavior such as burrowing or hiding, and often deprived
of food and water. Newborn, young, and adult animals were
systematically denied basic and veterinary care for even
painful, life-threatening injuries and conditions. Imagine
suffering the neglect that these thousands of ferrets experience
every single day. Speak up for these ferrets today by taking
action below.

The investigator's repeated requests for care and speedy
euthanasia to relieve suffering were met with blank stares,
shoulder shrugs, and general indifference, as the investigator
was instructed to "just leave" ferrets as they were. Many
ferrets died slow, painful deaths.

Hundreds of newborn and young ferrets fell through the gaps
in the wire cage bottoms 3 feet to the waste-covered concrete
floors below, where they were left to writhe and cry, and they
often died of dehydration or starvation within sight of their
mothers and siblings. Triple F forbade its workers—including
PETA's investigator—to pick up the dying newborns. These young
ferrets are vulnerable and need their mothers. How would you
feel if your baby were slowly dying within your sight and you
could do nothing about it?

Workers ran over, maimed, and killed young ferrets on the
floor with carts. Other live ferrets were stepped on and buried
in feces. PETA's investigator also saw ferrets thrown into the
trash—and into the facility's incinerator—while still alive.
Help prevent other ferrets from being cold-heartedly discarded
as "trash" by taking action now.

Triple F did not have a staff veterinarian to examine and
treat the 6,000 or more ferrets it keeps confined in its sheds
on any given day. Despite claims on Triple F's website that the
facility was visited weekly by a veterinarian, PETA's
investigator never saw a veterinarian or veterinary technician
at Triple F in nearly four months of working there.

Triple F separates ferrets from their mothers at just 5 weeks
of age. Lay employees worked in a dusty "surgery room" and used
unsterilized instruments—including a dull needle and razor
blade—over and over to cut organs and anal sacs from ferrets who
were not anesthetized properly and "woke up" and cried out. Read
more about PETA's findings here.

PETA has shared its findings with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), which has—in the last five
years—signed contracts with Triple F worth more than $1.5
million for live ferrets used in experiments.

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